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An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
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Hacker News | Oct 12, 2026 | espeed
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Opens and saves . docx (OOXML), and also . odt, . rtf, . html, . md, . tex (LaTeX), . txt; opens Word 97-2003 . doc; exports PDF with real, selectable text, links and bookmarks. Fast typing with IME, smart quotes, AutoCorrect, list autoformat (* , 1. ), dashes; word, sentence, paragraph selection; drag-select; clipboard with formatting; undo/redo; find and replace with regex . docx read/write (opens in Word), Word 97-2003 . doc import, PDF export, . odt, . rtf, . html, . md, . tex, . txt import/export, page images The honest picture, area by area, is in ROADMAP.
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